Jeff and Spencer Tweedy released "Sukierae," their debut album as Tweedy, last Tuesday. They've started touring and will be at the Calvin Theatre in Northampton, Mass. tomorrow night. (I interviewed Spencer about the album and tour; read the interview here.)

Nick Offerman of NBC's "Parks and Recreation" will star as Ignatius Reilly in a stage adaptation of "A Confederacy of Dunces."
Huntington Theatre Company in Boston said Monday that Offerman will play the obnoxious, overweight and very funny protagonist...

In talking to Luke Macfarlane, the TV, film and stage actor, about furniture making, which is just one of his passions, you also get a window into his art, and his life.
Listen to him talk about how he approaches woodworking — with knowledge and...

A story about people who love one another made by people who clearly love one another, "Parks and Recreation" ended its seven-season, zigzag run through prime time Tuesday night on NBC. In the final shot, star Amy Poehler, as public servant Leslie Knope,...

"Parks and Recreation" always made the fine art of creating great television comedy look easy. For seven seasons the NBC series set an impossibly high benchmark, and now leaves the air without any true peer on network TV.
That it never attracted a...

After seven seasons, "Parks and Recreation" bid farewell on NBC on Tuesday night with a series finale that leapt forward in time to show how things turned out for the gang from Pawnee, Ind. (To anyone who has ever watched this upbeat series, it should come as no surprise to learn that they all ended up very happy.)
The comedy, which overcame an iffy six-episode first season to become one of the most critically beloved (if not award-winning) shows on television, was never a huge ratings draw and...

Let us now praise "Parks and Recreation," which ends Tuesday night in an effervescence of heart and hope, proof positive that success and significance are not always measured in gold, statuary or otherwise.
The show that gave us Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler), Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman), April (Aubrey Plaza) and Andy (Chris Pratt), that made Retta a household name and introduced non-stand-up aficionados to Aziz Ansari, has yet to win a single Emmy. Co-creators Greg Daniels and Michael Schur miraculously...

"The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," which premieres Sunday on HBO, is a seductive six-part series about a murder, maybe two murders, maybe three.
It is not the first true-crime documentary to be presented at such length — there was Jean-Xavier de Lestrade's eight-hour "The Staircase" on Sundance in 2004 and, minus the pictures, the recent public-radio series and minor national obsession "Serial." But, notwithstanding the expense, it's surprising, really, how few the other examples...

NASCAR's Super Bowl ad hasn't gone over as well as anticipated.
As of Tuesday morning, a Change.org petition from a user named Gluten Dude had collected more than 18,300 signatures against the ad and in support of Celiac disease awareness.
The tongue-and-cheek commercial conveys a hardcore, beer-guzzling, American flag-donning, bull-riding NASCAR fan that rejects all that is "weak." And while the ad doesn't mention the autoimmune disease Celiac outright, it pokes fun at gluten insensitivity.
"When...

Sundance breakout "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl," a quirky, heartfelt story about a pair of high school film-lovers who befriend a girl with cancer, won both the U.S. dramatic audience award and the grand jury prize at the 31st Sundance Film Festival awards, announced Saturday.
Thomas Mann, R.J. Cyler and Olivia Cooke lead the cast of the idiosyncratic tearjerker from director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, who dedicated the audience award to all the filmmakers and artists in his hometown of Laredo, Texas....